Commonwealth v. Clark

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “an informant’s tip may constitute probable cause where police independently corroborate the tip”
• holding that observations of the defendant leaving his residence before a controlled buy and then returning to the residence established probable cause to conclude the residence was connected to the illegal transaction
• concluding that search warrant for defendant’s residence was supported by probable cause, where police observed defendant leaving his residence, conducting the controlled buy, and returning to his residence, consistent with information provided by a CI
• finding that an informant’s tip will constitute probable cause if there is some independent corroboration by police of the informant’s information
• holding a determination of probable cause based upon information received from a CI depends upon the CI’s reliability and basis of knowledge viewed in a common sense manner
• noting that the totality of circumstances “permits a balanced assessment of the relative weight of all the various indicia of reliability or unreliability of an informant’s tip”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Wallace
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-04-26· cited 166×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-12-20· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Harlan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-04-23· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Arthur
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-02-20· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Burgos
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-02-20· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Gagliardi
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-11-20· cited 30×
• Com. v. Bernard, F.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-09-04· cited 22×
• Com. v. Nicholson, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-09-27· cited 16×
• Com. v. Mendoza, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-12-16· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Koonce
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-06-15· cited 13×
• Com. v. Shackelford, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-04-14· cited 11×
• Com. v. Manuel, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-04-07
• In the Interest of: Y.W.-B. Apl of: J.B.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-12-23
• In the Interest of: N.W.-B. Apl of: J.B.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-12-23
• Commonwealth v. Shaffer
  Jefferson County Court of Common Pleas· 2012-08-16

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Aguilar v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 7,289×
• Spinelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 6,223×
• Massachusetts v. Upton
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 821×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-02-16· cited 433×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-16· cited 308×
• Commonwealth v. Gray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-02-05· cited 301×
• Commonwealth v. Luv
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-07-22· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Sanchez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-09-27· cited 75×
• United States v. Garnett L. Tuttle and Larry Settle
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-01-07· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-08-02· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Dukeman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-02-06· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Gindlesperger
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-12-24· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-06-16· cited 2×